Francisco Cervantes de Salazar and the cultural diffusion of Spanish humanism in New Spain.
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Title
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Francisco Cervantes de Salazar and the cultural diffusion of Spanish humanism in New Spain.
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Identifier
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AAI9000676
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identifier
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9000676
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Creator
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Bono, Dianne M.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Ottavio Di Camillo
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Date
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1989
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Latin American
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Abstract
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This comprehensive analysis of humanism as a cultural and literary factor in early colonial thought in New Spain focuses on the literary works of Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, first professor of Rhetoric at the University of Mexico founded in 1553. Cervantes' work has been evaluated within the context of major trends in pedagogy prevailing in Spain in the early sixteenth century. The changes his humanism had undergone when confronted by the new intellectual and social milieu of colonial Mexico are also examined. Cervantes' major works can be classified as educational, historical, moral and social. His three dialogues on Mexico city and on the university, coupled with his edition of Luis Vives' Exercitatio Linguae latinae, became the first textbook for the study of the humanities printed in New Spain and used for the study of Latin in the New World.;Cervantes, an exponent of the latest orientation of mid-sixteenth century Spanish humanism, prepared an edition of three contemporary humanistic theses printed at Alcala in 1546 by Juan de Brocar. This work is significant not only for the fact that he made available to learned Spaniards Luis Mexia's apologue on leisure and labor, Fernan Perez de Oliva's essay on the dignity of man, and Luis Vives' adagios on how to achieve true knowledge, but more importantly for the wealth of comments and additions Cervantes made. This thesis gives special treatment to Oliva's Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre, which Cervantes not only translated into Spanish but for which he also composed his own resolution that in effect triples the length of Oliva's work. This work is examined within the framework of the "dignity of man" theme and analyzed for its humanistic content. A modern edition of Cervantes' addition to Perez de Oliva's Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre completes this thesis.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
